Category Archives: Development

A category for posts relating to all aspects of development.

Meteor Product Page and Release Update

I’ve been trying my absolute hardest to build up enough hubris to birth at least one extra update to this blog in between the bi-annual posts, but it’s been really difficult, but this is not the time for excuses; it’s … Continue reading

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Is this what you had in mind?

It seems as though time flows like a river; history repeats itself and another of the seemingly bi-annual posts on this blog will start with an apology about not writing blog posts. We’ve had quite a lot of questions about … Continue reading

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Data Virtualisation in Silverlight and WP7

Silverlight has some great UI virtualisation features. You can have thousands of items in an ItemsControl, and so long as you are using a VirtualizingStackPanel the UI will remain snappy and responsive. However, what if the thousands of items that … Continue reading

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How we work

We’re a small team of professional developers by most people’s standards. By day, we all work on a product using some pretty cool, modern technology and by night, we’re transformed into intergalactic space cops or horse murderers (that’s a reference … Continue reading

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A More Controllable TransitioningContentControl

During our time developing for Silverlight 3 and Windows Phone 7, we found a few holes in functionality and structure that we wanted to fill. Being WPF developers by day, the gulf in functionality between the runtimes provided some challenges … Continue reading

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